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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably an altered spelling of Krich, a dialect plural of Krug ‘pitcher’, ‘jug’, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of such vessels.
  • German : habitational name from a place called Krickau.
  • German : nickname for someone who walked with a crutch, from Krick ‘crutch’, dialect form of Kruücke.

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